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Wild Beasts is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of The Smiths, Jon Hopkins, Lankum, Bobby and Born This Way: The Remix. Those roots explain a lot about how Wild Beasts arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Everything Everything, Yeasayer, These New Puritans, Clinic and Wye Oak, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mashrou' Leila, alt-J and Son Lux, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Wild Beasts, reaching back through The Smiths and forward to Mashrou' Leila. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Wild Beasts connections
Wild Beasts grew out of The Smiths, Jon Hopkins, Lankum and Bobby, shares an orbit with Everything Everything, Yeasayer, These New Puritans and Clinic, went on to shape Mashrou' Leila, alt-J and Son Lux. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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